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Stephen McBarron
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Leeds West And Pudsey
‘We’re visiting MPs constituencies on each Friday up until Christmas because we’ve got to fill the December news vacuum somehow!” #bbcpm
December 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Why don’t those daft Fairbrother twonks rent that farm? They moved to Ambridge to become farmers (without a farm which is usually a minimum requirement for the farming lark)! Ok - one has moved away but he could return - his child still lives there! #TheArchers
December 12, 2025 at 2:06 PM
If you saved $5,000 a day since 1492 when Columbus ‘discovered’ America you still wouldn’t be a billionaire (nobody can do that on wages - average US daily wage is $250)! #wato have a billionaire on telling us we have a fairly equal society! Yup!
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
As if anyone takes Mel Stride seriously! #wato
December 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Wonder if the anti vax wibble movement has contributed to the surge in flu cases - they’ve done their own research you know (watched a YouTube video made by that bloke who talks to himself at bus stops)! #r4today
December 12, 2025 at 6:06 AM
2 weeks today - Christmas (enjoy it while it lasts)! 3 weeks today - January (nobody enjoys that)! #r4today
December 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
#r4today Why do the BBC continually platform this dodgy propaganda outfit
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The Institute of Economic Affairs – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group that "incubated" Liz Truss – was bankrolled by oil giants and Rupert Murdoch’s media empire.

📝 Exclusive findings from @desmog.com 👇
The Institute of Economic Affairs Banked £640,000 from Oil Giants and Murdoch
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) – the anti-state, anti-climate pressure group – received more than £640,000 from fossil fuel companies and Rupert Murdoch’s media conglomerate between 1957 and ...
www.desmog.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Emma Barnett - Labour ‘stuffing the Lords’ with new Peers. Tory girl making sure she uses pejorative language to attack the actions of the government (just like she always did on 5live). Even Henry Zeffman felt compelled to correct her ‘it’s still full of Tories’! #r4today
December 11, 2025 at 6:42 AM
House of Lords hereditary peers breaking precedent by blocking legislation from the manifesto of a party that won a general election. Sooner they get booted out next year the better #r4today
December 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Fans of #TheArchers might like To Walk Invisible on BBC4 tonight at 10.00pm! BBC Bronte biopic from Christmas 2016 and not broadcast since (other than on BritBox)! Also on iplayer
December 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
You’d think Trump would want his own font - pretty sure those Roman Emperors did that? Trajan for instance came from his celebratory obelisk! The orange man missed a trick there! #bbcpm
December 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Badenoch has given Sharon Davies a seat in the Lords! No doubt Justin Webb will interview her on #r4today the first chance he gets #bbcpm
December 10, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thinking about Gingerbread Houses looks to me like that Witch in Hansel & Gretel had been done over by her estate agent - hardly a sound construction method! Ditto that Witch who had a house on chicken legs! Should have had a full survey done! #bbcpm
December 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists’ Social Media History www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/t... If you’ve criticised Trump you probably won’t be allowed to go on holiday to the USA! Fine - go to Canada and spend your money there instead! #bbcpm #lbc
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I went to see the Turner Prize Exhibition and whilst the winners work wasn’t my favourite it did have merit in that it was visually striking (I’ve edited myself out of the corner of this picture because I dislike being photographed) #wato
December 10, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Stop using that barmy old coot Lord Sumption - there are plenty of other former jurists out there! #wato
December 10, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Maybe it’s the beginning of a Survivors style global pandemic (1970s version) and only 1 of the Ambridge residents (Kate probably) will survive! Helen will be found stiff as a board with her feet sticking out of a vat of cheese! Super fun! #TheArchers
December 9, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Not this again and for the next 18 months - French Far Right Leader tipped to win first round of French Presidential Election! Yes - he is BUT the BBC aren’t telling us it’s a 2 stage process and his chances of winning the 2nd stage runoff are zero - zero - just like every other time! #bbcpm
December 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
What’s with the security services and these testosterone infused code names - seriously think they’re playing at being James Bond or doing the old Richard Burton ‘Broadsword calling Danny Boy’! Why Stakeknife? Wouldn’t Perfumed Ponce have done just as well? #wato
December 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Turner Prize - went to see the exhibition this year and the work of Mohamed Sami seemed the most interesting! #wato
December 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
9th December is Weary Willie Day - named in honour of the American Clown of yesteryear #r4today
December 9, 2025 at 8:48 AM
In Headingley Leeds an undercover group were slashing the tyres of oversized cars parked outside - one lady who went to the papers complaining she couldn’t visit her elderly mother after that was told ‘you don’t need a tank to go see a relative’ #r4today
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 AM
www.theguardian.com/politics/202... normally nothing comes of these cases (especially if it’s the Electoral Commission or Election Court involved) BUT this looks different - police in charge with what looks like a lot of evidence! See what happens #bbcpm #lbc
Police assess claims Reform UK breached electoral law during Farage campaign
Party denies claim by ex-councillor of falsely reporting expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last year
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
No such thing as ‘cheap copper piping’ - copper piping was the only kind that plumber from Moonstruck used and he was loaded #TheArchers
December 7, 2025 at 7:19 PM
No Shula in the cast list next week! Just a dismal ‘we must clean this house’ storyline then #TheArchers
December 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM